Lord Byron Quotes
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
Quotes to Explore
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
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You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.
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True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.
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Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.
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Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
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If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.
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It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
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Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
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Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.
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Only with a burning patience can we conquer the splendid City which will give light, justice and dignity to all mankind. In this way the song will not have been sung in vain.
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Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
